A Living History of Early Apple Microcomputing

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January 1981

Volume

1

Issue

5

Total pages

36

Binding

Stapled

Copies on hand

1

Workflow state

Scanned

Cover story

Apple in the Big Apple

Issue highlights

Big Apple Gives Little Apple the Business: Apples are selling like hotcakes in New York City—many to megabusinesses; Robot War: Strategy for Learning - Revolutionary concept in gaming software teaches logic and programming through fun; Softalk's First Annual Most Popular Software Poll - Readers have a chance to air their opinions of the all-time top ten in popular software; Disk Drive Doctor Moves East - A very special person, Mike Cornblith deals in Apple service and general good will; Exec California Pacific: Quiet, thoughtful Al Remmers has made his software company a howling success; plus regular monthly columms, departments, and Bestseller lists, etc.

Cover, Contents and sample pages

These sample JPG images are in the 1-2 MB size-wise and reasonably high resoultion at 2,544 x 3,297 pixels with some quality compression. These are half the resolution of the project's source/reference images scanned to TIF format at 600 dpi (5,100 x 6,600 pixels).

Sample PDFs

Softalk magazine was published in four full volumes between September 1980 and August 1984. In total, over 9,300 information-rich pages chronicle a pivotal period in the history of Apple microcomputing. More generally – due to its pioneering breadth and depth of content – Softalk is an unparalleled source of information that captures the emerging revolutionary impact of affordable microcomputing on our societies, cultures, arts, and economies.

Currently this on-line archive contains only a brief profile of each issue available to the project. See the About page for more information about the goals of, and roadmap for, the Softalk Apple Project.